Improvement in cider-mills



PATENT ErrcEo S. J. HOMAN, OF WALDEN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIDER-IVIILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,297, dated June 5,1866.

To all whom t may concern.

Be itknown that 1, S. J. HOMAN, of Walden, in the county of Orange andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cider-Mill; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a verticalcentral section of my invention, and Fig. 2 a plan sectional view of thesame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a machine that will crush theapples and then` scrape the broken or crushed parts, so as to form apulpy mass similar to the pulp that is formed by scraping' an apple witha knife or similar instrument. This pulp may be very readily compressed,so as to extract all the juice from it, the power required for thepurpose being quite moderate.

The invention consists in the employment or use of a rotating cylinderprovided with longitudinal knives or scrapers, and placedV within ahopper provided with stationary projections orledges and an adjustableknife or plate, all'being arranged substantially as hereinafter shownand described to effect the desired result.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a frame, which may be constructed of rectangular form, andB is a cylin der, which is placed on said frame A, and is provided withlongitudinal radial knives or scrapers C, which extend the whole lengthof the cylinder. These knives or scrapers may be constructed of steelplates fitted into the periphery of the cylinder and secured therein inUany proper way, the knives or scrapers being allowed to project asuitable distance from the periphery of the cylinder. Over this cylinderB a hopper, D, is placed. This hopper has an inclined position, or itmaybe described as being tangental with cylinder B, (see Fig. l.) The backplate, a, of this hopper has a plane or smooth surface throughout 5 butthe front plate, I), has a projection or ledge, c,

which may be formed by a rabbet, d, in the plate b, or by making saidplate of two separate parts,cf, connected at g, as shown clearlyin Fig.

prising the front plate, b, is essential, as will be presentlyexplained.

The lower part of the front end of the hopper is formed of a cross-har,t', having' a vertical bar or plate, j, attached; and to the uppersurface of the bar a knife, E, is attached.

This knife E is about in line with or a little below the center ofcylinder B, and the knife may be adjusted nearer to or farther fromcylinder B, as circumstances may reqpire.

The cylinder B is rotated in the direction of the arrow by anyconvenient power, and the apples to be crushed and reducedv to thedesired pulp are placed in the hopper I), and are rst crushed betweenthe ledge c and the cylinder B. This crushing operation is greatlyfacilitated by the oblique position of the part j' relatively withcylinder B, a wedge-shaped or taper passage being thereby formed, whichenables the apples to be crushed with a moderate power. The apples,after being crushed at this point, (the ledge 0,) pass down in contactwith the part e and are subjected to a second crushing operation at thelower edge, 71., of part e. The face side of the part e is not so muchinclined asf, and being below the ledge c, and extendin g down in frontof the cylinder B, the knives or scrapers C act upon the portions in amore direct manner, and have aA tendency to cut the same rather thancrush them.

By this last operation the apples are still further reduced, and theparts pass down andare scraped into a pulpy mass by the action of theknives or scrapers O of cylinder B and the stationary knife E.

The pulp falls into a suitable box or receiver, F, and the juice may beexpressed from it by the ordinary screwpress, designated by G. Byadjusting the knife E the apples may be scraped coa-rser or finer, asdesired. i

I am aware that knives have been attached to rotating cylinders, and thelatter arranged spective of arrangement, any of the parts herewithtoothed and corrugated coneaves for the in shown and described; but

purpose ot' grinding and crushing different I do claim as new and desireto secure by articles; but I am not aware that a cylinder LettersPatentof knives has heretofore been used with ahop- The adjustable knifeE, operating, in cornper provided with ledges or projecting edgesbination with the Scrapers C of the cylinder B, at the ends ofinelinedsurfaces having differin the manner and for' the purpose herein entdegrees of inclination for the purpose of specified. r operating inconnection with the knives of the S. J. HUMAN. cylinder consecutively onthe apples, as set Witnesses:

forth. JOHN C. SooFrELD,

I do not claim, therefore, separately, or irre- A. W. COOKE.

